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Scalp, face and parotid region

Published on June 30, 2026   44 min

Other Talks in the Series: Introduction to Gross Anatomy for Medicine

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Hello. In this module, we will be looking at the scalp, face, and parotid regions.
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What I would like to share with you now is an overview of how anatomy of the face, scalp, and parotid region is all interconnected, very similar to this artist's rendition of the face and neck. What we think about here when we see this art is that there is not one particular standout feature. It is all in harmony with other features. I'd like to make sure that this is how we work with the material we're going to discuss in this particular module. The scalp, while we frame that in individual slides, is intimately connected to the face, and the face is intimately connected to the parotid. While we divide out each of these so that we can learn the material a little bit more simplified, we are going to spend time in this module connecting all three because clinically they are all related.
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Let's start with the scalp. In this particular image, this is a T2-weighted MRI, and we are going to be looking at the most superior part of this image. To the left is the nose and nasal cavity. To the right is the posterior region of the cranium, the occipital region. Inferior, you can see on the left lower corner where the tongue is, and all of the white, bright material in the center of this MRI is cerebrospinal fluid. But our focus here is the scalp. The scalp is a five-layered system consisting of skin and subcutaneous tissue that covers our neurocranium from the superior nuchal lines again on the occipital bone, posterior or to the right on this slide, all the way to the supraorbital margins of the frontal bone on the left side of this image. Let's walk through all five of these layers. The scalp.

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